Nexus Rails by argo15
Created by Bill Crane and Mike DeRoy
Made using OpenGL. Nexus Rails is a game in which you hop from rail to rail in order to get to the end of the level.
Controls:
Press a key to jump to an adjacent rail.
If you hit the end of a rail, it will slow you down and move you back.
Try to get to the end with the highest score possible.
Made using OpenGL. Nexus Rails is a game in which you hop from rail to rail in order to get to the end of the level.
Controls:
Press a key to jump to an adjacent rail.
If you hit the end of a rail, it will slow you down and move you back.
Try to get to the end with the highest score possible.
Ratings
| Coolness | 30% | 897 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.88 | 153 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.69 | 142 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.00 | 88 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.89 | 163 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.17 | 147 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.61 | 38 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.71 | 144 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.56 | 178 |
I liked the gameplay as well, but the way it restarts when you miss a jump is really frustrating, as you'll usually go back 2 or 3 because you get confused about where you are and it's still going really fast.
Overall cool stuff guys :D
Also the fact that the music speeds up with your speed is funny
The only real issue I had was that I couldn't always figure out what happened when I teleported back. Were there places where the level was actually constructed to teleport me somewhere or was it always that I failed to jump in time?
The solution I can think of is making you stop when you fail and then increase the speed again giving you some kind of feedback that you failed and had to start over.
So, I really liked it and if the level had been a bit longer it could have kept me occupied for a while. Good work! :)
Neat graphics, cool little world. High mood points from me.
It might have been a bit easier if the camera was zoomed out further. Also a bit short.
We programmed it using two computers, one with Nvidia graphics card and one with an ATI graphics card so we know it supports both of these cards. The game is pretty graphically intense; what is your model of video card? My guess would be that your graphics card doesn't support something that the game needs to run. In a previous project we did I was getting a black screen because my graphics card did not support frame buffer objects.